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Subject: Re: VibrantLS 12Gig HardDrive Recognized As Only 8Gig

Author:
Ken

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Date Posted: 00:10:57 04/05/00 Wed
In reply to: Don Boling 's message, "Re: VibrantLS 12Gig HardDrive Recognized As Only 8Gig" on 12:58:59 04/03/00 Mon

During power up, look for the Build Date. This is the actual date the BIOS code was written. Do not pay any attention to the Copyright date. If you have an old BIOS, ASE will upgrade it to the most current, which is probably about a year or so, old.

> Thanks for the info ...
>
> The BIOS on my Vivante SE says
> SystemSoft BIOS for Intel 440BX version 1.01
> (2482-00)
> Copyright 1983-1996
>
> Two years earlier ... thats what leads me to beleive
> there is another BIOS out there for the Vivante.
>
> anyone know of an upgrade aside from sending it to ASE?
>
> I sent them an email for info but have not heard back
> yet.
>
> Don
>
>
> > I don't know whether this applies to the Vibrant or
> to
> > Vivante only, but FWIW I recall there was a post here
> > a few months back where someone noticed ASE had
> > upgraded their BIOS for them, when they sent their
> > Transmonde in for repair. It was after Transmonde
> went
> > out of business.
> >
> > The BIOS on my Vivante says
> > SystemSoft BIOS for Intel 440BX version 1.01
> (2482-00)
> > Copyright 1983-1998
> > and it has no trouble at all with an 18-gig drive.
> The
> > CMOS setup screen reports the full size of the drive.
> >
> > _gARRETT
> >
> > > The copyright date is when the BIOS code was
> written
> > > (or copyrighted). During power up, you should see
> a
> > > date (ie 5/14/99 or similar) which is the actual
> date
> > > when the specific code for that particular computer
> > > was written. The 6GB was the largest size
> available
> > > in the 9.5mm form factor a year ago. Since they no
> > > longer offer notebook computers, I would suspect
> they
> > > no longer employee a BIOS engineer. You cannot
> use a
> > > "generic" BIOS and expect everything to continue to
> > > work properly. Your best bet would be to return
> the
> > > 12GB and stay with a 8GB or smaller. This is just
> an
> > > unfortunate limitation of the way the BIOS was
> > written.
> > >
> > > > Same here ... I just got a 12 gig Hitachi and I
> > have
> > > > the same problem... in a earlier post they talked
> > > > about the BIOS version... specifically copywright
> > > > dates of 1993-1998 ... mine is 1993-1996..
> > > >
> > > > I am going to try to find a flash upgrade for it
> > ...
> > > >
> > > > Don
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > I bought a new 12 gig Hitachi hard drive. It is
> > > > > displayed
> > > > > as only 8 gigs in cmos setup and fdisk. My bios
> > > date
> > > > > is
> > > > > Jan 99. Has anybody installed a new hard drive
> in
> > > > > their
> > > > > Vibrant LS?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > jb

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: VibrantLS 12Gig HardDrive Recognized As Only 8Gig	Don Boling	07:25:28 04/05/00 Wed
Re: VibrantLS 12Gig HardDrive Recognized As Only 8Gig -- Ken, 23:27:20 04/06/00 Thu Re: VibrantLS 12Gig HardDrive Recognized As Only 8Gig -- Don Boling, 09:35:05 04/07/00 Fri